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Posted by Joelle Casteix on August 15, 2013

Rep. Diane Harkey: Please take a look at cost of crimes in YOUR district before voting no.

Yesterday, CA Assembly Appropriations Committee Vice Chair Diane Harkey voted no on important crime victims legislation—even though a similar 2003 bill exposed horrible abuse in her own district.
I don’t believe it was a malicious act against victims, I just think she doesn’t know about the child sex crimes and cover-up that have thrived in the 73rd Assembly District.

SB 131—the California Child Victims’ Act, a bill that gives crime victims the opportunity to use the civil courts to seek justice and accountability—has stalled in House Appropriations Committee.
According to the Los Angeles Times:

A key question for the committee is whether new lawsuits would strain an already overburdened court system. At the height of the clergy abuse…